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LSU Libraries Resources
Indexes and Databases
- American Public Opinion Index
- Most comprehensive source for public opinion polls
- Located in Middleton Reference at call number HM 261 A463
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Under the Reference section there is a link to polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
- The file includes sources in opinion polling such as Gallup, Harris, Roper; ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC; Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
- This database provides a complete roster of all the substantive questions included in each survey
- Coverage is from 1935 to current
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Journals
- The American Enterprise
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Available from 1995 onward via Infotrac
- Also available in Middleton Library at call number D839 .A383
- International Journal of Public Opinion Research
- Issues from 1996-1998 are available via InfoTrac
- Also available in Middleton Library at call number HM261 .I68
- Public Opinion Quarterly
- Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
- Part of JSTOR
- Full text also in Middleton Library at call number HM261 .A1 P8
- The Public Perspective : A Roper Center Review of Public Opinion and Polling
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Internet Resources
- American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Special survey conducted by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
- Charts and graphs on public opinion on national priorities, U.S. role in resolving world problems, major foreign affairs issues
- Gallup Organization
- Summary results of most current public opinion polls
- Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, call number HM261 .G35; current year in Reference Room
- General Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)
- Annual survey since 1972 of public opinion and lifestyle
- Covers poverty, religion, contraceptive use, opinion on foreign affairs
- ICPSR site provides background on survey as well as printed publications resulting from the survey
- Primary data extraction available from ICPSR and UC-Berkeley
Computer-Assisted Survey (UC-Berkeley)
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse" option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or percentages
- Example of American National Election Studies from University of Michigan
- Harris Poll Online
- Public opinion results of last two months
- Primarily government and economic questions
- Free site but need to register to access information
- Institute of Public Policy and Social Research (Michigan State University)
- Search publications by keyword for an analysis of current Michigan public opinion polls on policy issues
- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Non-profit organization providing public policy information on issues affecting black Americans
- Summaries of selected papers include public opinion polls on such topics as race relations, children, black participation in the Republican Party
- Full text of annual report
- Kaiser Family Foundation Surveys
- Surveys on American values, sex, health care issues, politics, and morals
- Full text since 1996
- Most in pdf format
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains the world's largest archive of computerized, numeric social science data.
- Topics covered include demography, economics, health care, politics, social behavior, public opinion.
- The Keele Guide to Internet Resources on Polls and Survey Data on US Politics
- National Council on Public Opinion Polls
- Principles of disclosure
- 20 questions journalists should ask when reading poll results
- National Election Studies
- Prepared by the Center for Political Studies
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
- Studies beginning 1994 are available via ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
- Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present
- National Opinion Research Center
- Home of the General Social Survey with links to data at ICPSR
- Studies describes its economic, education, social, and health statistics programs
- Studies and data on a variety of topics (guns, stress, abortion, smoking) appear in the Library section of the menu
- Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics, public policy, and the press
- Issues covered since 1995 include the Presidential elections, TV news viewership, Medicare reforms, campaign financing, and churches
- Data on the public's attention to major news stories beginning 1986
- Archive of files since 1985 available upon request
- Polling Report
- Biweekly periodical with public opinion polls on politics, business, and culture
- Examples include favorite actor of all time, the President's approval rating
- Includes articles on public opinion trends by opinion analysts, pollsters and academics
- Presidential Job Performance (Roper Center)
- Public opinion polls on presidents from Truman to the current.
- Separate charts from Gallup, Yankelovich, ABC, NBC, and CBS rate the President several times per year since 1993
- Gallup ratings include begin with 1938 and rate president's since FDR
- Princeton Survey Research Center
- Links to Internet sources on public polls
- Information on conducting polls
- Public Agenda
- Nonpartisan, issue-oriented think tank
- Presents eighteen issues, including abortion, crime, gambling, immigration, internet privacy, social security, and welfare
- For each issue provides background, links to lobby groups, a digest of news stories, basic statistics, and a variety of state laws
- Numerous public opinion polls
- Public Opinion Poll Question Database (University of North Carolina)
- Database of questions asked in the Harris, Carolina, Southern States, and All State polls since the 1960s
- Searchable by subject, poll, and decade
- Catalog provides additional information and often frequency distributions
- Roper Center Public Opinion
- Primarily information about the Center
- Searchable catalogs of its public opinion polls, the Latin American Survey Data Bank and the Japanese Survey Data Bank
- Roper polls can also be searched in LexisNexis Academic in the Reference/Polls and Surveys section
- STATS: Statistical Assessment Service
- Articles describe the leading statistics used in current newspaper articles
- Collection dates back to 1995
- Washington Post
- Public opinion polls on public affairs since January 1998
- Subjects include Presidential popularity, sanctions toward Iraq, violence in schools
- Descriptions supplemented by statistical tables
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